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Poster for "Rip Van Winkle"

Date: 1905
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Across top in caps "A splendid scenic revival of the greatest of American dramas." Title runs beneath. Scene from play in which ...
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The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 
Description: Flyer advertising the special performance of The Cradle Will Rock by The Mercury Theatre.
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No Chemical Weapons!

Date: 01 16 1984
Description: Russian with Cyrillic characters. Poster depicts a person with a "USA" hard hat and dollar signs on his goggles pouring a chemical into a beaker with a CS ...
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Salvador Allende Kept His Word Dramatically and Impressively

Date: 09 1973
Description: Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz...
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"Krise des Marxismus?" Poster

Date: 06 03 1983
Description: Poster announcing a discussion at Ernst Bloch University on the 100th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx. Poster has black text and image on a white bac...
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Millhouse: A White Comedy

Date: 1974
Description: Poster advertising an Australian release of Emile de Antonio's 1971 documentary "Millhouse: A White Comedy," about the political career of Richard Nixon. T...
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"In the Year of the Pig"

Date: 02 26 1969
Description: Poster advertising the premiere of Emile de Antonio's documentary film "In the Year of the Pig," at the Symphony II theater in Boston. Although the film wa...
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"Underground"

Date: 1976
Description: Poster advertising Emile de Antonio's 1976 documentary film "Underground," about the radical social group the Weather Underground. Poster shows a reproduct...
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"In the Year of the Pig"

Date: 1970
Description: Poster advertising a German screening of Emile de Antonio's 1968 documentary film "In the Year of the Pig," about the Vietnam War. Poster is designed like ...
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Polish Movie Poster for "Old Yeller"

Date: 1957
Description: Polish movie poster advertising the exhibition of the 1957 Walt Disney film "Old Yeller." Poster includes a colored drawing of a dog. Poster text reads: ...
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"Černý Petr" (Black Peter) Film Poster

Date: 1964
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster with a white background and black lettering. Along the bottom is a photographic image of three young men and a woman talking, s...
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"Milenka" (The Mistress) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Swedish film "Alskarinnan." At the top is a cutout heart framing the waist-up photographic image of a naked woman (face...
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"Přisně tajné" (For Eyes Only) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the German film "Streng Geheim." Features a grainy photographic image of a hand and a face. The hand is holding a black and...
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"Vojandy" (The Camp Followers) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Italian film "Le Soldatesse." A small photographic cut-out image of a woman's legs, along with an equally small cut-out...
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"Mamma Roma" Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for an Italian film. Photographic close-up image of a woman holding her hand up to her face.
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"20 Hodin" (20 Hours) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster featuring a black and white photographic image of an arm (and its shadow) reaching out towards a rifle.
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"Souhvězdí panny" (Sign of the Virgin) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Black and blue close-up image of two faces, one in front of the other. Their eyes are closed and have stars pasted on the eyel...
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"Kočār do vīdně" (Carriage to Vienna) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Black and mustard yellow image of a carriage wheel in the bottom right corner and part of a face in the top left corner.
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"Černý tulipán" (The Black Tulip) Film Poster

Date: 1967
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the French film "La tulipe noire." Collage image of a swashbuckler dressed in black and holding a sword while standing in a...
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"Die Hand in der Falle" (The Hand in the Trap) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: German film poster for the Argentine film, "La mano en la trampa." Black and white photographic image of a woman standing and wearing a dress with the rota...

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